Clarion 1947-02-28 Vol 26 No 10

Honest
7414ift Thal Baci
To reassure our outside sub-scribers,
whose main contact
with Bethel is through the Clar-ion,
may we state that 1 i f e
around here isn't quite as hec-tic
as our features might imply.
While we do have our bath-tub
parties and other foolish-ness,
there is also a more ser-ious
side to college which is
so ever-present that it doesn't
make good news nor can it be
featured interestingly. W e o f-ten
study, even in the unjustly
maligned library.
The Clarion
Beillets Gaicial School Papeit
Vol. XXVI — No. 10 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. February 28, 1947
Debate Squad Rates High In Meet
Bethel Team Attends Contest at
Eau Claire; Defeats U of W Team
AS ROSY
SEES IT
By Rosenquist
The American Heart Association
proclaimed the week before last as
National Heart Week. Its purpose
was to bring before the people of
the United States the seriousness
of heart diseases. To put it blunt-ly,
over 7,400,000 Americans are
suffering from various diseases of
the heart. It is claimed that it is
a killer as terrible as cancer and
has ten victims for tuberculosis'
one.
Worry and fear, the association
claims, are the greatest enemies
while a happy attitude plus avoi-dence
of over-exertion, overweight,
infection and overexposure are the
best preventatives.
Think it over! Rheumatic fever,
a kind of heart disease, is the ma-jor
cause of death in children from
5 to 19 years of age and second
largest killer of young people from
19 to 24.
* * *
If a bill is passed by Congress
that the post office has recommen-ded,
it will be costing you more
money to send that laundry home
through the mail.
For the 1948 fiscal year, the
post office is faced with a 325
million dollar deficit. They hope
to remedy that deficit by a two
cent rate on post cards; higher
rates on papers and magazines;
and an increase of four to five
cents a pound on parcel post. I
doubt that it would stop your
mothers from sending you cookies
and cakes though.
The post office also wants to
raise the charge on money orders
(Continued on page 3)
Going away to school and living
in dormitories is said to be one of
the best means of developing a
young person's personality and
charm. There. I've been told, you
meet friends with poise and cult-ure.
You become self-reliant and
sophisticated. All these things and
more are what I expected to find
at school.
Now. . . let me tell you about
some of our experiences in Bodien
Hall, the elite residence of the ma-jority
of Bethel women.
We fail our self-reliance test
first thing in the morning. Since
our alarm clock was borrowed by
some visitors during open house
day, our trustworthy neighbor has
the unthankful task of knocking
Spite Moves to
New Office Izv
Refectory Room
Picking up bag, baggage a n d
desk, the Spire staff has moved
its office to the refectory room of
the men's dorm, leaving the Clar-ion
in full possession of room 108.
Reason for the move was lack of
space for layouts and artwork and
a lack of secrecy.
Two of the very desks in front
of which some of our vets receiv-ed
their discharges, surplus from
Camp McCoy, have been turned ov-er
to the Clarion. And to top it
off, we now have real back-tilting,
feet-on-the-desk swivel chairs f o r
the bigshot and assistant bigshot.
Boy, are we sharp!
on our door, then bodily dragging
us out of bed when seven o'clock
comes.
Our wardrobe is in a sad state.
(We had jammed everything into
four small drawers in order to pre-sent
a neat exterior to visitors).
As a result we attend the day's
classes in a borrowed sweater and
a badly wrinkled skirt.
We allow 10 minutes on the
breakfast line, and wait 2.0. The
result, a hastily gobbled meal and
late entrance into first hour class
. . . Self reliance, good manners,
Bah!
Later on in the day our buzzer
rings. Hearts vibrant with expec-tation,
we dash for the telephone.
Of course, six other sophisticated
25th Founder's
Session Held
Founders' Week, observed this
year during the week of February
17 to 22, had its beginning 25
years ago when the school held a
Founders' evening on February 20,
the birthday of John Alexis Ed-gren,
founder of Bethel. At the
first sessions only the Baptist min-isters
of the Twin Cities were in-vited.
Six years ago at a Fall min-isters'
meeting it was decided to
combine the two into a Founders'
Week. Since then the Ministers of
the Baptist General Conference
have met annually at Bethel for a
week of inspiration.
This year representatives from
as far away as Ferndale and Seat-tle,
Washington, a n d Worcester,
Massachusetts were among one of
the largest groups ever to attend
Founders' Week.
Mr. C. George Ericson, manager
of the General Conference Press,
visited the Communications Class
during Founder's Week to speak
on the need of stories and other
MSS f o r Evangelical Sunday
School papers.
young ladies have reached it be-fore
we have. They render a
coarse-voiced and boistrous rendi-tion
of "Sweet Adeline" and other
similar sentimental ballads, thus
making it impossible to hear a
word from the other end of the
wire. This is accompanied by buck-e
t s of water frivolously poured
down our back. Friends with poise
a n d culture, d i d someone say?
Friends?
Arriving home from our big date
we return the various articles of
our wearing apparel to their diff-erent
owners and settle down in
our short-sheeted, collapse d,
crumb-filled beds to meditate on
the accomplishments of the day
and the well-rounded personalities
we are receiving while at college.
What's Cookin?
Feb. 28 Austin at Bethel
Mar. 1 Girls' Basketball at U.
Farm
Mar. 4 Alexis
Mar. 5 Basketball Banquet
Mar. 7 Commuters' Club
Mar. 10-13 Examinations and
Registration
Mar. 14 BWA
Freshman Tests
Missionary Band
HOW'S YOUR MANNERS?
*ea Tao ea. Be a Saphisticale
Beating the University of Wisconsin and St. Olaf college, and out-pointing
the University of Minnesota, Bethel's debate team No. 1 earned
an "Excellent" rating for the speech tournament held at Eau Claire
last week. Other Bethel representatives also rceived honors in their
fields.
Bethel's A team, Harold Christenson, and Lee Kingsley, who are in
their first year of college debating
received a total of 26 points of a
possible 30 to make an excellent
showing against some difficult op-position.
Beside defeating the Un-iversity
of Wisconsin and St. Olaf,
they outpointed the University of
Minnesota with a rating of excel-lent
o v e r Minnesota's rating of
good to keep them out of the fin-als,
lost to St. Thomas college by
one point, and were defeated by
Concordia.
In their first tournament, Jacob
Toews and Carolyn Green met
Macalaster, Mankato, Eau Clair
State Teachers college, Central
State Teachers College and Michi-gan
State. They scored a rating of
good for the tournament.
Donald Decker, Alastair Brown,
Charles Germany, and Edward Av-ey
represented Bethel in the dis-cussion
groups who discussed the
United Nations and their prob-lems.
Ed Avey, scoring a total of
35 points of the possible 40, missed
getting into the finals by one point,
ranking seventh out of thirty-five.
Scoring 80 points of a possible
100, Harold Chrstenson placed
fourth in one of the two divisions
in the extempore speaking contest.
In the oratorical contest, Ed Avey
placed fourth in one of the two di-visions.
His oration was Pakistan
And Indian Independence.
Schools represented at the tourn-ament
included University of Minn-esota,
Michigan State, Concordia
College of Moorhead, Concordia J.
C. of St. Paul, Northern Michigan,
Carlton, St. Thomas, St. Olaf, Mac-alester,
Eau Clair State Teachers,
River Falls, Ripon, St. Catherine,
Central State Teachers, Mankato,
Augsburg, St. Mary's, and Bethel.
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EDITORIAL POLICY: To maintain and promote the Christian
principles of Bethel; to promote scholarship; to foster
more school spirit; to establish a better understanding
among the tudents.
Editor ' Gordon Krantz
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News E. W. J. Avey, Ed.; Rosenquist, Germany,
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Features A. Carlson, Ed.; Rosenquist, H. Anderson,
Bergman, A. Hansen, Raub, M. Lindstedt, D. Carlson,
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E. Johnson, Dahl, Lundberg.
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.2eideu ia the ecid.04
Page 2 THE CLARION
Dear Editor,
I read in your last edition the
letter of a farmer who wrote to
you to weep and wail about the
40,000 barns going without paint
to satisfy the women of America.
I agree with the man when he says
that too many girls of the school
use too much makeup, namely lip-stick
and nail polish; but I don't
agree that this causes our barns
to remain unpainted.
If your friend will read how lip-stick
is made he will find the chief
ingredients to be : cochineal which
is a red or scarlet dye removed
from an insect which has been
thoroughly ground a n d pressed,
and a fat base which is rendered
from fat removed from horses that
have died of their own fair means,
or of some disease such as sleep-ing-
sickness. These two with a
host of other ingredients such as
Chapel Quotes
The Lord Jesus Christ is saying,
"Love me."
—Paul Mundson
There are no Jewish terrorists
in Palestine.
—Theodore Jackman
If we could somehow become
convinced of our coldness of heart
there would be many a heart stirr-ed
and many a spiritual awaken-ing,
but there will not be as long as
there are thongs and nettles in our
lives.
��Dr. Wm. Wrighton
Our Jewish friends are thrilled
when Christians will come to them
in love.
—Theodore Jackman
Our people need a crisis in their
lives.
—John Wilcox
If we are sons of God there is
a family resemblance.
—Dr. Morris Peterson
The fear of the Lord is to hate
evil.
—Paul Mundson
George Mueller would hunt two
or three weeks for the promise
good tasting extract go into the
making of the pretty coloring mat-ter
you see women smearing on
their lips.
If any paint company sold paint
made rendered lard or with a sub-stance
such as cochineal in it they
wouldn't stay in business for over
a year. First of all it would be lit-erally
impossible to get this 'paint'
to cohere or mix together long en-ough
to apply it. Next, the first
warm summer day that came, the
fat would all melt out, and about
two days later the rest of the mix-ture
would dry up, flake, and fall
to the ground to be licked up by
the hogs. As for painting machin-ery
with nail polish, that too
would flake off with the first hot
day.
Yours scientifically,
Cal
The Bible has been running
on printing presses constantly
since 1450. It is currently be-ing
printed at the rate of thirty
million copies per y e a r. Its
nearest competitor, the year's
best seller, usually hits less
than one-fifteenth of its sales.
It is estimated that over
600,000,000 Bibles have been
printed.
It has been translated into
over 1000 languages and dia-
1 e c t s. Its nearest competitor,
Shakespeare, has been translat-ed
into 40 languages.
that would cover his need and then
claim it.
—Dr. Wingblade
The hardest fight in your life
is to spend time in prayer.
—John Wilcox
Oh, Lord, put me in a corner
where all I can do is depend upon
you and where you will get all the
glory.
—John Wilcox
What we need today is young
people who are willing to face a
Godless world and stand up for
Christ.
—Alvin G. Hause
Last Lap; Are
You a Quitter?
The milestone is past. The first
half of the year is over and the
most critical time is at hand.
It is at such times as this that
people show what they are made
of and whether, once the hand has
been put to the plow, they can
refrain from looking back. A good
start has been made and the easy
thing to do is to say, "I've done
my share. Now let someone else
take over." ' It is easy to forget
that someone else has been doing
his share in another corner.
Much of the effort and most of
the pleasure of college is extra-curricular.
Nor are such activities
unprofitable a large part of a lib-eral
education being contingent
upon just such non-credit work.
Those who go on to higher schools
will find that registrars are quite
interested in extra--curricular re-cords,
and rightly so. These activ-ities
teach practical living in a
way that organized classes cannot
hope to do.
It was great sport to start extra-curricular
work last fall, with a
whole year of unselfish service to
devote. But now the shouting is
over and, as in Gideon's army, the
true soldiers are being sorted out.
So far we have had the try-outs;
the real struggle has not yet be-gun.
Those who hold the fort from
now until the end of the year are
Last week was .National Brother-hood
Week during which we were
supposed to exhibit a bit more of
the brotherly love than we usually
display. Well, I wish someone
would tell the Clarion editor about
"Be Kind To Your Buddy Week"
because he played me a dirty trick
(and not on my harp, either). Do
you know what that refugee from
a Linotype machine did? With pre-meditated
and unwarranted antag-onism
against his "pride and joy"
(that's me, you know), he rushed
in (where angels fear to tread)
the office, interrupting my deep
concentration, grabbed my E c o n.
book from my hand, put this type-writer
in front of me, and shouted
at the top of his voice, "Get to
WORK." So . . . here I am "harp-ing"
again . . . and I wanted to
study s000000 bad!
"He who laughs last laughs
best," quoth some ancient sage but
I wonder who is going to have the
last snicker in this Bodien-Edgren
squabble which flared up last week
on Open House Day. With per-fume-
saturated sheets, turned over
mattresses, switched perfume bot-tles
and missing alarm clocks, the
rivalry was quite spirited and the
competition keen. I won't venture
an estimate as to which side
should shoulder the greater percen-tage
of the blame (I've already
got one bump on my head) but I
am quite sure that the visitors
were not favorably impressed by
some of the "goings on" and much
n the (Carpet
By President Wingblade
Dr. George Truett used to say at
great conventions—"I know Jesus
Christ better than I know any oth-er
person, the nearest and dearest
on earth."
That is a great statement to
make, and yet it must be true for
any of us if we really have taken
Him as our Saviour and Lord.
All of us live more or less insul-ar
lives as far as human fellowship
is concerned. There are deeps in
our hearts and lives that we can-not
divulge even to our nearest
on earth. They are the secrets of
the soul which would not be under-stood
by the closest friend—faith-ful
as he may be. But Christ—
that is oh so different! We cannot
hide our hearts from Him—nor
would we.
There are three kinds of prayer
or places. There is the public
praying. But how conscious we
are that human ears are listening.
But even here it is possible to rise
into the presence of God. Then
there is the family altar—with its
influence forever. Mother, Daddy,
and each child, maybe, according
to age, pray. I myself. prayed my
childish prayer at the family altar
before I could talk plainly.
(Continued on page 4)
truly unselfish ones. Those who
give a good excuse and drop out
—well, let's not talk about them.
Remember Lot's wife.
hard work in cleaning some of the
rooms was laid waste by "kinder-garten
commandos."
The Student Directory revealed
some hitherto unknown students
as far as I know. Do you know
who the following are? . . . the
names are new to me: Lillian Fish-er,
Frederick Johnson, Lars Lind-stedt,
Dorothy Martinson, Eleanore
Palmer. I wish I had a distinguish-ed
middle name so I could use it
instead of my common moniker.
Anyway, youse kids got yer name
in da paper.
Neither hide nor hair (have you
checked yours lately?) has been
seen or heard of our comrade gal-ley
slave, Archie, who was kid-napped
and held for ransom sever-al
weeks ago. Authorities believe
his abductors could suffer the
pangs of hunger no longer and de-voured
our beloved friend in lieu
of the 2000-crumb ransom which
was not forthcoming. A minute of
silence will be observed tomorrow
morning between 4:46 and 4:47 A.
M. in memory of the Clarion's im-measurable
loss (or does someone
have a cockroach ruler?).
Some citizen with a head on his
shoulders, no doubt, has recom-mended
that barbers be college-ed-ucated
so they would know what
they were talking about . . . he
must have the same barber that I
have. Before long the Clarion will
require that its staff members go
to college . . . know where I can
get a job?
.25attki clia4/24 . . By Dave Carlson
THE CLARION Page 3
Clarion Gets
Shea Letter
This is another in the series of
articles written by great Christians
of today especially for the CLAR-ION.
Dear Clarion:
Thank you for your letter of
January 20. I am glad to give you
a word of testimony for you relig-ious
column.
"Jesus said, 'I am the door: by
me if any man enter in, he shall
be saved.' I am glad that at an
early age I learned that the Chris-tian
experiences of my father and
mother, wonderful as they were,
could not bring me into a right
relationship with God; I had to
come in through 'the Door' and so
I trusted Christ as my Saviour.
Through the years He has meant
everything to me. 'I'd rather have
Jesus than silver or gold, I'd rath-er
be His than have riches un-told.'
"
Again, thank you for writing me.
How about a copy of the CLARION
coming this way when it's out?
May His rich blessings be yours.
Sincerely,
Beverly Shea
ROSY
(Continued from page 1)
and postal notes. I don't think
that will effect us students, as if
Bethel students would have any
extra money to send away!
* * *
And still regarding money and
budgets, Stalin just submitted a
new budget, which, unlike the U.
S. budget, was passed unanimously
by the soviet representatives. Ev-idently
everyone agrees with Jos-eph.
A large portion of his budget
is slated for scientific research.
Let's hope it's for peaceful means!
In the U. S., the national budget
is not being agreed upon as easily,
but I don't have any problem bud-geting
my two dollars a week!! !
The deadline is here and gone.
The editor is breathing heavily
down my neck. There's a column
to be written and here I'm just
starting.
You think I'm in a spot. No one
can throw a bunch of sentences to-gether
in just a few minutes and
expect anyone to read them. Well,
you're wrong. For you folks who
haven't noticed this column before
will read this one, because half
way down the column will appear
in bold face type the name that
has been on the lips of every loyal
basketball fan for the past three
weeks. That name that has stood
out so triumphantly in the last
few box scores is none other than
that of Lowell George Bergeson.
From where I sat in the audience
I have watched "Borgy" go quietly
into a game and with the coolness
of an "A" student prior to a daily
Destruction In
Dorm as Flood
Runs Rampant
"And the floods came, and with
them came the mops." All was
quiet and peaceful in the dorm,
everyone was writing her biogra-phy;
in fact, it was too peaceful
for the girl's dorm. I had just set-tled
for an hour of study when out
in the hall I heard, "Mrs. Lawson,
Mrs. Lawson, there's a flood up
on the third floor!" Throwing as-ide
my biography, I dashed for the
stall s, up them I went two at a
time. - By the time I arrived the
volunteers were already there.
With utter dismay we viewed the
situation, for dire was the destruc-tion.
One room was gleaming with
water from one end to the other,
the bathroom was flooded, the hall
was flooded, the candy kitchen was
flooded, and the hall closet was
flooded.
Irma Peterson, armed with a
mop, in her housecoat and over-shoes,
began to drain the water
from the room. Eunie Engstrom
in pajamas and bare feet acted as
second mate. Out in the hall were
M r s. Lawson, Phyllis Hammond,
and your reporter in pajamas and
rubber boots, mopping away with
two old bed spreads, a broom, and
a dustpan.
On and on we worked, hardly
stopping to catch our breath, for
the night was growing late. Our
arms ached, our backs ached, we
were wet and discouraged, but
still we had to work, for no help
came. After hours, one and a half
in fact, we had conquered the wat-ers
and Bodien third floor was dry
again.
As we wended our weary way
back to our rooms, we came to the
conclusion that you learn the stran-gest
things, including flood con-trol,
in college.
quiz dump in the ball from every
angle.
Lowell specializes in a one-hand-ed
push-up shot from the foul line.
In one game alone a few weeks
ago he racked up 14 points on char-ity
shots, missing only three for
the evening, in only three quarters
of play.
Those of us who would rather
watch the team practice in the af-ternoon
than study have noticed
I3ergeson as he dominates the ac-tion
of these inter-team scrimmag-es.
We can't help but notice the
way he plays, never giving up, con-sistent
in his enthusiasm, a hard
fighter sinking shots for his side
to the embarrassment of some of
the regulars on the other team.
The greatest news of all about
Bergeson is that he plans to be
back next year and for several
seasons to come.
THAT courses a t Bethel a r e
comprehensive, according to Carl
Olson, since what is left out of the
lectures is covered by the tests.
THAT Prof. Swan Engwall in-formed
a Freshman Conference
that there are legitimate ways of
"polishing apples for the Prof."
THAT Miss Berthel is planning
to spend the next vacation cook-ing
and has started to collect re-cipes
from composition description
of processes.
THAT standards of taste in the
debate class are measured by a
blackboard thermometer in Room
211 as Poor, Good, 0. K., Excellent
and Oh Boy!
THAT a bulletin-board wag an-nounces
special music from the
Missionary Band and very moving
pictures.
THAT a school is the only place
of which Prof. Engwall know s,
where people try to get as little
as possible for their money.
Changes in Sem
Anticipated
Plans for the future of the Sem-inary
were mentioned by Pres. H.
C. Wingblade in his column in The
Standard as follows:
The attendance in the Seminary
has been increasing during the last
years as well as that in the col-lege.
The seminary building is in-creasingly
over-crowded. The clas-ses,
like Dr. Karlson's, overflow
into the hall. The library and stu-dy
facilities are inadequate. This
condition will be somewhat reme-died
when we remodel the pres-ent
seminary dormitory upstairs
into classrooms and study h a 1 1.
The four-year college will of course
strengthen the Seminary prepara-tion
and make possible greater ex-pansion
even there.
This is not his first experience,
as he has collected his full share
of awards back in Prentice H. S.
in northern Wisconsin before his
graduation last June.
It wouldn't take much imagina-tion
on our part to visualize Bethel
closer to the conference lead if
"I3orgy" had not a back injury in
the earlier part of the season
which kept him from appearing
in any of the first eight games.
We will have some more oppor-tunities
to watch "Borgy" play in
the last two games of the season,
one tonight and the other next
Monday. Both these games will be
on the Bethel floor. Austin and
Luther alike will have their hands
full trying to stop this lanky six-foot-
one of Bergeson as he breaks,
passes and shoots in his natural
free-style manner.
• •
THAT Miss Berthel made a
Founder's Week appearance in the
role of a pianist.
THAT Dean C. E. Carlson intro-duced
a motion at the meeting of
the Modern World class that all
alarm clocks be advanced by five
minutes but no seconder was
found.
THAT Mr. Anderson brings the
guest of honor to zoology class
piecemeal.
THAT Miss Nelson, translating a
sentimental German play, "will be
glad when we get through with
this mush."
THAT a trig joker poured out
his woes on the blackboard to the
effect that the wages of sine is
cosecant.
THAT Bethel hit the funnies on
Sunday with the fact that Clarence
Britton and Charles Germany are
students in the same college.
THAT in their spare minutes be-tween
conference sessions preach-ers
could be found crowding the
coffee shop or getting a "work-off"
in the gym.
THAT Jim Rehnberg specializes
in giving facial massages a n d
that Mrs. Lawson was his first
customer?
Introducing
Oscar, One of
Bethel's Family
Stripped of his every possession
and unable to remember anything
in his past, Oscar came to our cam-pus
as an outcast. We have no re-cord
of his last name, for no one
has as yet been able to probe into
his intriguing and mysterious past.
His humbleness and retiring ways
perhaps account for the fact that
so few of the students have made
his acquaintance.
It has been established by au-thorities
that Oscar made a thrill-ing
escape from a morgue, i n
which he was imprisoned for sev-eral
days. After his harrowing ex-periences,
he fled to Bethel and
was immediately given a job in
the zoology lab.
Oscar has always been retiring
and shy because of his rather odd
appearance and a very noticeable
speech impediment. Oscar was a
mere skeleton when he came to
Bethel and because of bad working
conditions and scanty pay, he has
been unable to gain any weight.
Although extremely quiet, Oscar
is really a very pleasant person.
Last week he graciously consented
to make a personal appearance in
Zoology lecture,_ but because of his
physical condition he had to be
carried to the platform. After be-ing
introduced by Prof. Elving
Anderson, Oscar demonstrated
many useful facts to the students,
ignoring the screams of several of
the female members of the class.
If you haven't met him yet, come
to Zoology lab some day and I'll
gladly introduce you to. . . our
skeleton!
spoias 74ui so/al
By Herb Ellison
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Page 4 THE CLARION
Sneakers Lead Bethel Loses Battle to Braves Intra-Murals
Bethel Murders Indians Lose By
Rochester 52-44 Only 2 Points
In case you hadn't noticed, on
the last five Friday afternoons,
there has been quite a lot of noise
and excitement kicked up, down in
our school gym. This noise and
excitement has all generated from
the Intra-mural Basketball league.
There are probably several reas-ons
for gathering all the intra-mural
sharpshooters, to shout their
lungs out, to get the exercise or
maybe just for the love of the
game. But whatever it is our
league has the right amount of ev-erything
to make it a success.
Seventy five recruits showed in-terest
at the mention of intramural
basketball six weeks ago. These
seventy two were divided into six
teams by drawing the names out
of a hat. The teams then got to-gether
to organize and elect a cap-tain.
George Taylor, a member of the
varsity Basketball team, volunteer-ed
his services as referee for each
Friday afternoon. A schedule was
arranged, so that each team would
meet the other five teams in turn,
with three games each Friday. The
teams were then ready to begin
their careers. At the outset of the
season, there were many fouls and
faulty ball handling. Each quintet
soon found the feel of the ball and
began to iron out its troubles. Each
crew is now a smooth working
basketball machine. Competition
has grown very keen and some
high scoring games have been the
result.
Teams Wins Losses
Sneakers 5 0
Rodger Dogers 3 2
Lu Lus 3 2
Wheels 2 3
Fumblin Five 2 3
Tornadoes 0 5
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Austin Protects
Lead Tonight
The Bethel Indians will meet
the Austin five on the home court
this evening in what should be a
thriller. Austin will be fighting to
retain its hold on first place. At
the present time Austin has a
7-2 record, and Bethel, with 7
wins and 4 losses, is still among
the first division teams. Even
though they are the underdogs for
this encounter, the Indians have a
good chance of defeating Austin if
they display the form that enabled
them .to defeat Rochester last Sa-turday.
The fact that Rochester
has a victory over Austin gives
Bethel a strong possibility of win-ning.
Coach Edwards will probably
start Ev Johnson and Ray Sand-berg
at the forward positions, Ken-ny
Greenman at the pivot posi-tion,
and Bab Sandin and John Dis-chinger
as guards.
Conference standings to date
are:
Team WON LOST PCT.
Austin 7 2 778
Worthington 3 1 750
Concordia 9 5 671
Bethel 7 4 636
Waldorf 4 3 571
Luther 4 4 500
Rochester 4 5 444
Bethany 1 9 100
Tracy 0 6 000
CARPET
(Continued from page 2)
But even here there is some-thing
of the consciousness that
others, close as they may be—
can listen in. And so the mother
or daddy may slip away afterwards
and open all the heart to God, and
pour out all the yearning needs.
What a privilege is prayer—to
commune, oh, so intimately, with
Him "who knows all about us and
loves us just the same."'
Rochester College was automat-ically
thrown into seventh place
in the conference when the Bethel
Indians squelched them in a fast
game last Saturday night.
Sandburg again held high place,
with Everett Johnson and Kenneth
Greenman tying for second high.
From three points behind at the
end of the first quarter, Bethel
pulled out for a three point lead
at the half, with the score stand-ing
at 21-18. In the third quarter
Bethel fell behind again, until Dis-chinger
dropped in a bucket from
behind the ten-second line, putting
Bethel in a one point lead. At the
end of the game Bethel led by
eight points, giving them another
fought-for and well-earned victory.
Prescher of Rochester suffered
a sprained ankle while John Dis-chinger
of the home team took a
bad knock that made him foggy
for a while.
Squaws Drub
Cathedral Six
With Richert's usual scoring
prowess, which garnered 17 points
the Bethel Six defeated Cathedral,
by a score of 34-14, Feb. 25, in a
game played at Bethel.
Starting lineup for the red and
white was forwards : L. Rametz,
Peterson, Richerts ; and guards:
Larson, Rametz, Westlund. Coach
Edwards frequently changed this
starting lineup, twice sending in
a whole new team.
Cathedral was behind at the
start. The half ended, 24-7, Bethel.
Bethel stretched their lead to
end the game with a 20 point mar-gin.
Bethel Indians, lost by 2 points
to a taller Sioux Falls Quint in a
hectic battle in the Bethel gym
last Tuesday.
Starting lineup for the Indians
was center, Greenman; forwards,
Ev. Johnson, and Sandberg, and
guards, Sandin and Dischinger.
The Braves went into a lead in
the first quarter, 13-4. However
as soon as Bergeson came into the
game for the Indians at center,
sending Greenman to the post of
guard, the team opened up, trail-ing
the Braves at the half, 30-34.
Both teams tore into the second
half, fighting hard. They were
tense and the crowd cheered wild-ly
as both teams, in quisk succes-sion
shot and failed to score.
Greenman broke the ice and tied
the game, 40-40.
The Braves then scored a field
goal making their score 42. Sand-berg
and Dischinger each connec-ted
with a freethrow, tieing the
score again. Another basket by
Sioux Falls, followed by a bucket
by Sandberg kept the game tied
44, up.
The Braves scored a free toss in
the last minutes of the third frame
to put them in the lead 44-45.
In the final stanza, the Sioux
Falls Quint broke away, to leave
the Indians fumbling ten points
behind. Then, in the last, minute
of play Greenman and Sandberg
boosted the score from 57 to 65.
Playing time was a matter of
seconds, as the braves came down,
shot and missed. Hard-fighting
Bergeson, snagged the rebound and
started down the floor when the
whistle blew, ending the game,
Sioux Falls, 67; Bethel, 65.
Sandberg's sharpshooting kept
the Indians on their feet, netting
them 24 points, while Moode, Sioux
Falls center, and mainstay made
31 points.
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Honest
7414ift Thal Baci
To reassure our outside sub-scribers,
whose main contact
with Bethel is through the Clar-ion,
may we state that 1 i f e
around here isn't quite as hec-tic
as our features might imply.
While we do have our bath-tub
parties and other foolish-ness,
there is also a more ser-ious
side to college which is
so ever-present that it doesn't
make good news nor can it be
featured interestingly. W e o f-ten
study, even in the unjustly
maligned library.
The Clarion
Beillets Gaicial School Papeit
Vol. XXVI — No. 10 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. February 28, 1947
Debate Squad Rates High In Meet
Bethel Team Attends Contest at
Eau Claire; Defeats U of W Team
AS ROSY
SEES IT
By Rosenquist
The American Heart Association
proclaimed the week before last as
National Heart Week. Its purpose
was to bring before the people of
the United States the seriousness
of heart diseases. To put it blunt-ly,
over 7,400,000 Americans are
suffering from various diseases of
the heart. It is claimed that it is
a killer as terrible as cancer and
has ten victims for tuberculosis'
one.
Worry and fear, the association
claims, are the greatest enemies
while a happy attitude plus avoi-dence
of over-exertion, overweight,
infection and overexposure are the
best preventatives.
Think it over! Rheumatic fever,
a kind of heart disease, is the ma-jor
cause of death in children from
5 to 19 years of age and second
largest killer of young people from
19 to 24.
* * *
If a bill is passed by Congress
that the post office has recommen-ded,
it will be costing you more
money to send that laundry home
through the mail.
For the 1948 fiscal year, the
post office is faced with a 325
million dollar deficit. They hope
to remedy that deficit by a two
cent rate on post cards; higher
rates on papers and magazines;
and an increase of four to five
cents a pound on parcel post. I
doubt that it would stop your
mothers from sending you cookies
and cakes though.
The post office also wants to
raise the charge on money orders
(Continued on page 3)
Going away to school and living
in dormitories is said to be one of
the best means of developing a
young person's personality and
charm. There. I've been told, you
meet friends with poise and cult-ure.
You become self-reliant and
sophisticated. All these things and
more are what I expected to find
at school.
Now. . . let me tell you about
some of our experiences in Bodien
Hall, the elite residence of the ma-jority
of Bethel women.
We fail our self-reliance test
first thing in the morning. Since
our alarm clock was borrowed by
some visitors during open house
day, our trustworthy neighbor has
the unthankful task of knocking
Spite Moves to
New Office Izv
Refectory Room
Picking up bag, baggage a n d
desk, the Spire staff has moved
its office to the refectory room of
the men's dorm, leaving the Clar-ion
in full possession of room 108.
Reason for the move was lack of
space for layouts and artwork and
a lack of secrecy.
Two of the very desks in front
of which some of our vets receiv-ed
their discharges, surplus from
Camp McCoy, have been turned ov-er
to the Clarion. And to top it
off, we now have real back-tilting,
feet-on-the-desk swivel chairs f o r
the bigshot and assistant bigshot.
Boy, are we sharp!
on our door, then bodily dragging
us out of bed when seven o'clock
comes.
Our wardrobe is in a sad state.
(We had jammed everything into
four small drawers in order to pre-sent
a neat exterior to visitors).
As a result we attend the day's
classes in a borrowed sweater and
a badly wrinkled skirt.
We allow 10 minutes on the
breakfast line, and wait 2.0. The
result, a hastily gobbled meal and
late entrance into first hour class
. . . Self reliance, good manners,
Bah!
Later on in the day our buzzer
rings. Hearts vibrant with expec-tation,
we dash for the telephone.
Of course, six other sophisticated
25th Founder's
Session Held
Founders' Week, observed this
year during the week of February
17 to 22, had its beginning 25
years ago when the school held a
Founders' evening on February 20,
the birthday of John Alexis Ed-gren,
founder of Bethel. At the
first sessions only the Baptist min-isters
of the Twin Cities were in-vited.
Six years ago at a Fall min-isters'
meeting it was decided to
combine the two into a Founders'
Week. Since then the Ministers of
the Baptist General Conference
have met annually at Bethel for a
week of inspiration.
This year representatives from
as far away as Ferndale and Seat-tle,
Washington, a n d Worcester,
Massachusetts were among one of
the largest groups ever to attend
Founders' Week.
Mr. C. George Ericson, manager
of the General Conference Press,
visited the Communications Class
during Founder's Week to speak
on the need of stories and other
MSS f o r Evangelical Sunday
School papers.
young ladies have reached it be-fore
we have. They render a
coarse-voiced and boistrous rendi-tion
of "Sweet Adeline" and other
similar sentimental ballads, thus
making it impossible to hear a
word from the other end of the
wire. This is accompanied by buck-e
t s of water frivolously poured
down our back. Friends with poise
a n d culture, d i d someone say?
Friends?
Arriving home from our big date
we return the various articles of
our wearing apparel to their diff-erent
owners and settle down in
our short-sheeted, collapse d,
crumb-filled beds to meditate on
the accomplishments of the day
and the well-rounded personalities
we are receiving while at college.
What's Cookin?
Feb. 28 Austin at Bethel
Mar. 1 Girls' Basketball at U.
Farm
Mar. 4 Alexis
Mar. 5 Basketball Banquet
Mar. 7 Commuters' Club
Mar. 10-13 Examinations and
Registration
Mar. 14 BWA
Freshman Tests
Missionary Band
HOW'S YOUR MANNERS?
*ea Tao ea. Be a Saphisticale
Beating the University of Wisconsin and St. Olaf college, and out-pointing
the University of Minnesota, Bethel's debate team No. 1 earned
an "Excellent" rating for the speech tournament held at Eau Claire
last week. Other Bethel representatives also rceived honors in their
fields.
Bethel's A team, Harold Christenson, and Lee Kingsley, who are in
their first year of college debating
received a total of 26 points of a
possible 30 to make an excellent
showing against some difficult op-position.
Beside defeating the Un-iversity
of Wisconsin and St. Olaf,
they outpointed the University of
Minnesota with a rating of excel-lent
o v e r Minnesota's rating of
good to keep them out of the fin-als,
lost to St. Thomas college by
one point, and were defeated by
Concordia.
In their first tournament, Jacob
Toews and Carolyn Green met
Macalaster, Mankato, Eau Clair
State Teachers college, Central
State Teachers College and Michi-gan
State. They scored a rating of
good for the tournament.
Donald Decker, Alastair Brown,
Charles Germany, and Edward Av-ey
represented Bethel in the dis-cussion
groups who discussed the
United Nations and their prob-lems.
Ed Avey, scoring a total of
35 points of the possible 40, missed
getting into the finals by one point,
ranking seventh out of thirty-five.
Scoring 80 points of a possible
100, Harold Chrstenson placed
fourth in one of the two divisions
in the extempore speaking contest.
In the oratorical contest, Ed Avey
placed fourth in one of the two di-visions.
His oration was Pakistan
And Indian Independence.
Schools represented at the tourn-ament
included University of Minn-esota,
Michigan State, Concordia
College of Moorhead, Concordia J.
C. of St. Paul, Northern Michigan,
Carlton, St. Thomas, St. Olaf, Mac-alester,
Eau Clair State Teachers,
River Falls, Ripon, St. Catherine,
Central State Teachers, Mankato,
Augsburg, St. Mary's, and Bethel.
The Clarion
Published Twice a Month By
BETHEL COLLEGE AND SEMINARY, ST. PAUL, MINN.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
EDITORIAL POLICY: To maintain and promote the Christian
principles of Bethel; to promote scholarship; to foster
more school spirit; to establish a better understanding
among the tudents.
Editor ' Gordon Krantz
Ass't. Editor Charles Germany
News E. W. J. Avey, Ed.; Rosenquist, Germany,
M. Lindstedt, R. Dischinger, Kenward, Burgeson, Bavin.
Features A. Carlson, Ed.; Rosenquist, H. Anderson,
Bergman, A. Hansen, Raub, M. Lindstedt, D. Carlson,
Olson, Martinson, Sheffler.
Sports Ellison, Ed.; H. Peterson, Goodrich,
E. Johnson, Dahl, Lundberg.
Religious Editor Ruth Bridges
Circulations Manager Karl Rosenquist
Business Manager Bud Peterson
Faculty Advisor LaVone Berthel
.2eideu ia the ecid.04
Page 2 THE CLARION
Dear Editor,
I read in your last edition the
letter of a farmer who wrote to
you to weep and wail about the
40,000 barns going without paint
to satisfy the women of America.
I agree with the man when he says
that too many girls of the school
use too much makeup, namely lip-stick
and nail polish; but I don't
agree that this causes our barns
to remain unpainted.
If your friend will read how lip-stick
is made he will find the chief
ingredients to be : cochineal which
is a red or scarlet dye removed
from an insect which has been
thoroughly ground a n d pressed,
and a fat base which is rendered
from fat removed from horses that
have died of their own fair means,
or of some disease such as sleep-ing-
sickness. These two with a
host of other ingredients such as
Chapel Quotes
The Lord Jesus Christ is saying,
"Love me."
—Paul Mundson
There are no Jewish terrorists
in Palestine.
—Theodore Jackman
If we could somehow become
convinced of our coldness of heart
there would be many a heart stirr-ed
and many a spiritual awaken-ing,
but there will not be as long as
there are thongs and nettles in our
lives.
��Dr. Wm. Wrighton
Our Jewish friends are thrilled
when Christians will come to them
in love.
—Theodore Jackman
Our people need a crisis in their
lives.
—John Wilcox
If we are sons of God there is
a family resemblance.
—Dr. Morris Peterson
The fear of the Lord is to hate
evil.
—Paul Mundson
George Mueller would hunt two
or three weeks for the promise
good tasting extract go into the
making of the pretty coloring mat-ter
you see women smearing on
their lips.
If any paint company sold paint
made rendered lard or with a sub-stance
such as cochineal in it they
wouldn't stay in business for over
a year. First of all it would be lit-erally
impossible to get this 'paint'
to cohere or mix together long en-ough
to apply it. Next, the first
warm summer day that came, the
fat would all melt out, and about
two days later the rest of the mix-ture
would dry up, flake, and fall
to the ground to be licked up by
the hogs. As for painting machin-ery
with nail polish, that too
would flake off with the first hot
day.
Yours scientifically,
Cal
The Bible has been running
on printing presses constantly
since 1450. It is currently be-ing
printed at the rate of thirty
million copies per y e a r. Its
nearest competitor, the year's
best seller, usually hits less
than one-fifteenth of its sales.
It is estimated that over
600,000,000 Bibles have been
printed.
It has been translated into
over 1000 languages and dia-
1 e c t s. Its nearest competitor,
Shakespeare, has been translat-ed
into 40 languages.
that would cover his need and then
claim it.
—Dr. Wingblade
The hardest fight in your life
is to spend time in prayer.
—John Wilcox
Oh, Lord, put me in a corner
where all I can do is depend upon
you and where you will get all the
glory.
—John Wilcox
What we need today is young
people who are willing to face a
Godless world and stand up for
Christ.
—Alvin G. Hause
Last Lap; Are
You a Quitter?
The milestone is past. The first
half of the year is over and the
most critical time is at hand.
It is at such times as this that
people show what they are made
of and whether, once the hand has
been put to the plow, they can
refrain from looking back. A good
start has been made and the easy
thing to do is to say, "I've done
my share. Now let someone else
take over." ' It is easy to forget
that someone else has been doing
his share in another corner.
Much of the effort and most of
the pleasure of college is extra-curricular.
Nor are such activities
unprofitable a large part of a lib-eral
education being contingent
upon just such non-credit work.
Those who go on to higher schools
will find that registrars are quite
interested in extra--curricular re-cords,
and rightly so. These activ-ities
teach practical living in a
way that organized classes cannot
hope to do.
It was great sport to start extra-curricular
work last fall, with a
whole year of unselfish service to
devote. But now the shouting is
over and, as in Gideon's army, the
true soldiers are being sorted out.
So far we have had the try-outs;
the real struggle has not yet be-gun.
Those who hold the fort from
now until the end of the year are
Last week was .National Brother-hood
Week during which we were
supposed to exhibit a bit more of
the brotherly love than we usually
display. Well, I wish someone
would tell the Clarion editor about
"Be Kind To Your Buddy Week"
because he played me a dirty trick
(and not on my harp, either). Do
you know what that refugee from
a Linotype machine did? With pre-meditated
and unwarranted antag-onism
against his "pride and joy"
(that's me, you know), he rushed
in (where angels fear to tread)
the office, interrupting my deep
concentration, grabbed my E c o n.
book from my hand, put this type-writer
in front of me, and shouted
at the top of his voice, "Get to
WORK." So . . . here I am "harp-ing"
again . . . and I wanted to
study s000000 bad!
"He who laughs last laughs
best," quoth some ancient sage but
I wonder who is going to have the
last snicker in this Bodien-Edgren
squabble which flared up last week
on Open House Day. With per-fume-
saturated sheets, turned over
mattresses, switched perfume bot-tles
and missing alarm clocks, the
rivalry was quite spirited and the
competition keen. I won't venture
an estimate as to which side
should shoulder the greater percen-tage
of the blame (I've already
got one bump on my head) but I
am quite sure that the visitors
were not favorably impressed by
some of the "goings on" and much
n the (Carpet
By President Wingblade
Dr. George Truett used to say at
great conventions—"I know Jesus
Christ better than I know any oth-er
person, the nearest and dearest
on earth."
That is a great statement to
make, and yet it must be true for
any of us if we really have taken
Him as our Saviour and Lord.
All of us live more or less insul-ar
lives as far as human fellowship
is concerned. There are deeps in
our hearts and lives that we can-not
divulge even to our nearest
on earth. They are the secrets of
the soul which would not be under-stood
by the closest friend—faith-ful
as he may be. But Christ—
that is oh so different! We cannot
hide our hearts from Him—nor
would we.
There are three kinds of prayer
or places. There is the public
praying. But how conscious we
are that human ears are listening.
But even here it is possible to rise
into the presence of God. Then
there is the family altar—with its
influence forever. Mother, Daddy,
and each child, maybe, according
to age, pray. I myself. prayed my
childish prayer at the family altar
before I could talk plainly.
(Continued on page 4)
truly unselfish ones. Those who
give a good excuse and drop out
—well, let's not talk about them.
Remember Lot's wife.
hard work in cleaning some of the
rooms was laid waste by "kinder-garten
commandos."
The Student Directory revealed
some hitherto unknown students
as far as I know. Do you know
who the following are? . . . the
names are new to me: Lillian Fish-er,
Frederick Johnson, Lars Lind-stedt,
Dorothy Martinson, Eleanore
Palmer. I wish I had a distinguish-ed
middle name so I could use it
instead of my common moniker.
Anyway, youse kids got yer name
in da paper.
Neither hide nor hair (have you
checked yours lately?) has been
seen or heard of our comrade gal-ley
slave, Archie, who was kid-napped
and held for ransom sever-al
weeks ago. Authorities believe
his abductors could suffer the
pangs of hunger no longer and de-voured
our beloved friend in lieu
of the 2000-crumb ransom which
was not forthcoming. A minute of
silence will be observed tomorrow
morning between 4:46 and 4:47 A.
M. in memory of the Clarion's im-measurable
loss (or does someone
have a cockroach ruler?).
Some citizen with a head on his
shoulders, no doubt, has recom-mended
that barbers be college-ed-ucated
so they would know what
they were talking about . . . he
must have the same barber that I
have. Before long the Clarion will
require that its staff members go
to college . . . know where I can
get a job?
.25attki clia4/24 . . By Dave Carlson
THE CLARION Page 3
Clarion Gets
Shea Letter
This is another in the series of
articles written by great Christians
of today especially for the CLAR-ION.
Dear Clarion:
Thank you for your letter of
January 20. I am glad to give you
a word of testimony for you relig-ious
column.
"Jesus said, 'I am the door: by
me if any man enter in, he shall
be saved.' I am glad that at an
early age I learned that the Chris-tian
experiences of my father and
mother, wonderful as they were,
could not bring me into a right
relationship with God; I had to
come in through 'the Door' and so
I trusted Christ as my Saviour.
Through the years He has meant
everything to me. 'I'd rather have
Jesus than silver or gold, I'd rath-er
be His than have riches un-told.'
"
Again, thank you for writing me.
How about a copy of the CLARION
coming this way when it's out?
May His rich blessings be yours.
Sincerely,
Beverly Shea
ROSY
(Continued from page 1)
and postal notes. I don't think
that will effect us students, as if
Bethel students would have any
extra money to send away!
* * *
And still regarding money and
budgets, Stalin just submitted a
new budget, which, unlike the U.
S. budget, was passed unanimously
by the soviet representatives. Ev-idently
everyone agrees with Jos-eph.
A large portion of his budget
is slated for scientific research.
Let's hope it's for peaceful means!
In the U. S., the national budget
is not being agreed upon as easily,
but I don't have any problem bud-geting
my two dollars a week!! !
The deadline is here and gone.
The editor is breathing heavily
down my neck. There's a column
to be written and here I'm just
starting.
You think I'm in a spot. No one
can throw a bunch of sentences to-gether
in just a few minutes and
expect anyone to read them. Well,
you're wrong. For you folks who
haven't noticed this column before
will read this one, because half
way down the column will appear
in bold face type the name that
has been on the lips of every loyal
basketball fan for the past three
weeks. That name that has stood
out so triumphantly in the last
few box scores is none other than
that of Lowell George Bergeson.
From where I sat in the audience
I have watched "Borgy" go quietly
into a game and with the coolness
of an "A" student prior to a daily
Destruction In
Dorm as Flood
Runs Rampant
"And the floods came, and with
them came the mops." All was
quiet and peaceful in the dorm,
everyone was writing her biogra-phy;
in fact, it was too peaceful
for the girl's dorm. I had just set-tled
for an hour of study when out
in the hall I heard, "Mrs. Lawson,
Mrs. Lawson, there's a flood up
on the third floor!" Throwing as-ide
my biography, I dashed for the
stall s, up them I went two at a
time. - By the time I arrived the
volunteers were already there.
With utter dismay we viewed the
situation, for dire was the destruc-tion.
One room was gleaming with
water from one end to the other,
the bathroom was flooded, the hall
was flooded, the candy kitchen was
flooded, and the hall closet was
flooded.
Irma Peterson, armed with a
mop, in her housecoat and over-shoes,
began to drain the water
from the room. Eunie Engstrom
in pajamas and bare feet acted as
second mate. Out in the hall were
M r s. Lawson, Phyllis Hammond,
and your reporter in pajamas and
rubber boots, mopping away with
two old bed spreads, a broom, and
a dustpan.
On and on we worked, hardly
stopping to catch our breath, for
the night was growing late. Our
arms ached, our backs ached, we
were wet and discouraged, but
still we had to work, for no help
came. After hours, one and a half
in fact, we had conquered the wat-ers
and Bodien third floor was dry
again.
As we wended our weary way
back to our rooms, we came to the
conclusion that you learn the stran-gest
things, including flood con-trol,
in college.
quiz dump in the ball from every
angle.
Lowell specializes in a one-hand-ed
push-up shot from the foul line.
In one game alone a few weeks
ago he racked up 14 points on char-ity
shots, missing only three for
the evening, in only three quarters
of play.
Those of us who would rather
watch the team practice in the af-ternoon
than study have noticed
I3ergeson as he dominates the ac-tion
of these inter-team scrimmag-es.
We can't help but notice the
way he plays, never giving up, con-sistent
in his enthusiasm, a hard
fighter sinking shots for his side
to the embarrassment of some of
the regulars on the other team.
The greatest news of all about
Bergeson is that he plans to be
back next year and for several
seasons to come.
THAT courses a t Bethel a r e
comprehensive, according to Carl
Olson, since what is left out of the
lectures is covered by the tests.
THAT Prof. Swan Engwall in-formed
a Freshman Conference
that there are legitimate ways of
"polishing apples for the Prof."
THAT Miss Berthel is planning
to spend the next vacation cook-ing
and has started to collect re-cipes
from composition description
of processes.
THAT standards of taste in the
debate class are measured by a
blackboard thermometer in Room
211 as Poor, Good, 0. K., Excellent
and Oh Boy!
THAT a bulletin-board wag an-nounces
special music from the
Missionary Band and very moving
pictures.
THAT a school is the only place
of which Prof. Engwall know s,
where people try to get as little
as possible for their money.
Changes in Sem
Anticipated
Plans for the future of the Sem-inary
were mentioned by Pres. H.
C. Wingblade in his column in The
Standard as follows:
The attendance in the Seminary
has been increasing during the last
years as well as that in the col-lege.
The seminary building is in-creasingly
over-crowded. The clas-ses,
like Dr. Karlson's, overflow
into the hall. The library and stu-dy
facilities are inadequate. This
condition will be somewhat reme-died
when we remodel the pres-ent
seminary dormitory upstairs
into classrooms and study h a 1 1.
The four-year college will of course
strengthen the Seminary prepara-tion
and make possible greater ex-pansion
even there.
This is not his first experience,
as he has collected his full share
of awards back in Prentice H. S.
in northern Wisconsin before his
graduation last June.
It wouldn't take much imagina-tion
on our part to visualize Bethel
closer to the conference lead if
"I3orgy" had not a back injury in
the earlier part of the season
which kept him from appearing
in any of the first eight games.
We will have some more oppor-tunities
to watch "Borgy" play in
the last two games of the season,
one tonight and the other next
Monday. Both these games will be
on the Bethel floor. Austin and
Luther alike will have their hands
full trying to stop this lanky six-foot-
one of Bergeson as he breaks,
passes and shoots in his natural
free-style manner.
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THAT Miss Berthel made a
Founder's Week appearance in the
role of a pianist.
THAT Dean C. E. Carlson intro-duced
a motion at the meeting of
the Modern World class that all
alarm clocks be advanced by five
minutes but no seconder was
found.
THAT Mr. Anderson brings the
guest of honor to zoology class
piecemeal.
THAT Miss Nelson, translating a
sentimental German play, "will be
glad when we get through with
this mush."
THAT a trig joker poured out
his woes on the blackboard to the
effect that the wages of sine is
cosecant.
THAT Bethel hit the funnies on
Sunday with the fact that Clarence
Britton and Charles Germany are
students in the same college.
THAT in their spare minutes be-tween
conference sessions preach-ers
could be found crowding the
coffee shop or getting a "work-off"
in the gym.
THAT Jim Rehnberg specializes
in giving facial massages a n d
that Mrs. Lawson was his first
customer?
Introducing
Oscar, One of
Bethel's Family
Stripped of his every possession
and unable to remember anything
in his past, Oscar came to our cam-pus
as an outcast. We have no re-cord
of his last name, for no one
has as yet been able to probe into
his intriguing and mysterious past.
His humbleness and retiring ways
perhaps account for the fact that
so few of the students have made
his acquaintance.
It has been established by au-thorities
that Oscar made a thrill-ing
escape from a morgue, i n
which he was imprisoned for sev-eral
days. After his harrowing ex-periences,
he fled to Bethel and
was immediately given a job in
the zoology lab.
Oscar has always been retiring
and shy because of his rather odd
appearance and a very noticeable
speech impediment. Oscar was a
mere skeleton when he came to
Bethel and because of bad working
conditions and scanty pay, he has
been unable to gain any weight.
Although extremely quiet, Oscar
is really a very pleasant person.
Last week he graciously consented
to make a personal appearance in
Zoology lecture,_ but because of his
physical condition he had to be
carried to the platform. After be-ing
introduced by Prof. Elving
Anderson, Oscar demonstrated
many useful facts to the students,
ignoring the screams of several of
the female members of the class.
If you haven't met him yet, come
to Zoology lab some day and I'll
gladly introduce you to. . . our
skeleton!
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Sneakers Lead Bethel Loses Battle to Braves Intra-Murals
Bethel Murders Indians Lose By
Rochester 52-44 Only 2 Points
In case you hadn't noticed, on
the last five Friday afternoons,
there has been quite a lot of noise
and excitement kicked up, down in
our school gym. This noise and
excitement has all generated from
the Intra-mural Basketball league.
There are probably several reas-ons
for gathering all the intra-mural
sharpshooters, to shout their
lungs out, to get the exercise or
maybe just for the love of the
game. But whatever it is our
league has the right amount of ev-erything
to make it a success.
Seventy five recruits showed in-terest
at the mention of intramural
basketball six weeks ago. These
seventy two were divided into six
teams by drawing the names out
of a hat. The teams then got to-gether
to organize and elect a cap-tain.
George Taylor, a member of the
varsity Basketball team, volunteer-ed
his services as referee for each
Friday afternoon. A schedule was
arranged, so that each team would
meet the other five teams in turn,
with three games each Friday. The
teams were then ready to begin
their careers. At the outset of the
season, there were many fouls and
faulty ball handling. Each quintet
soon found the feel of the ball and
began to iron out its troubles. Each
crew is now a smooth working
basketball machine. Competition
has grown very keen and some
high scoring games have been the
result.
Teams Wins Losses
Sneakers 5 0
Rodger Dogers 3 2
Lu Lus 3 2
Wheels 2 3
Fumblin Five 2 3
Tornadoes 0 5
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Austin Protects
Lead Tonight
The Bethel Indians will meet
the Austin five on the home court
this evening in what should be a
thriller. Austin will be fighting to
retain its hold on first place. At
the present time Austin has a
7-2 record, and Bethel, with 7
wins and 4 losses, is still among
the first division teams. Even
though they are the underdogs for
this encounter, the Indians have a
good chance of defeating Austin if
they display the form that enabled
them .to defeat Rochester last Sa-turday.
The fact that Rochester
has a victory over Austin gives
Bethel a strong possibility of win-ning.
Coach Edwards will probably
start Ev Johnson and Ray Sand-berg
at the forward positions, Ken-ny
Greenman at the pivot posi-tion,
and Bab Sandin and John Dis-chinger
as guards.
Conference standings to date
are:
Team WON LOST PCT.
Austin 7 2 778
Worthington 3 1 750
Concordia 9 5 671
Bethel 7 4 636
Waldorf 4 3 571
Luther 4 4 500
Rochester 4 5 444
Bethany 1 9 100
Tracy 0 6 000
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But even here there is some-thing
of the consciousness that
others, close as they may be—
can listen in. And so the mother
or daddy may slip away afterwards
and open all the heart to God, and
pour out all the yearning needs.
What a privilege is prayer—to
commune, oh, so intimately, with
Him "who knows all about us and
loves us just the same."'
Rochester College was automat-ically
thrown into seventh place
in the conference when the Bethel
Indians squelched them in a fast
game last Saturday night.
Sandburg again held high place,
with Everett Johnson and Kenneth
Greenman tying for second high.
From three points behind at the
end of the first quarter, Bethel
pulled out for a three point lead
at the half, with the score stand-ing
at 21-18. In the third quarter
Bethel fell behind again, until Dis-chinger
dropped in a bucket from
behind the ten-second line, putting
Bethel in a one point lead. At the
end of the game Bethel led by
eight points, giving them another
fought-for and well-earned victory.
Prescher of Rochester suffered
a sprained ankle while John Dis-chinger
of the home team took a
bad knock that made him foggy
for a while.
Squaws Drub
Cathedral Six
With Richert's usual scoring
prowess, which garnered 17 points
the Bethel Six defeated Cathedral,
by a score of 34-14, Feb. 25, in a
game played at Bethel.
Starting lineup for the red and
white was forwards : L. Rametz,
Peterson, Richerts ; and guards:
Larson, Rametz, Westlund. Coach
Edwards frequently changed this
starting lineup, twice sending in
a whole new team.
Cathedral was behind at the
start. The half ended, 24-7, Bethel.
Bethel stretched their lead to
end the game with a 20 point mar-gin.
Bethel Indians, lost by 2 points
to a taller Sioux Falls Quint in a
hectic battle in the Bethel gym
last Tuesday.
Starting lineup for the Indians
was center, Greenman; forwards,
Ev. Johnson, and Sandberg, and
guards, Sandin and Dischinger.
The Braves went into a lead in
the first quarter, 13-4. However
as soon as Bergeson came into the
game for the Indians at center,
sending Greenman to the post of
guard, the team opened up, trail-ing
the Braves at the half, 30-34.
Both teams tore into the second
half, fighting hard. They were
tense and the crowd cheered wild-ly
as both teams, in quisk succes-sion
shot and failed to score.
Greenman broke the ice and tied
the game, 40-40.
The Braves then scored a field
goal making their score 42. Sand-berg
and Dischinger each connec-ted
with a freethrow, tieing the
score again. Another basket by
Sioux Falls, followed by a bucket
by Sandberg kept the game tied
44, up.
The Braves scored a free toss in
the last minutes of the third frame
to put them in the lead 44-45.
In the final stanza, the Sioux
Falls Quint broke away, to leave
the Indians fumbling ten points
behind. Then, in the last, minute
of play Greenman and Sandberg
boosted the score from 57 to 65.
Playing time was a matter of
seconds, as the braves came down,
shot and missed. Hard-fighting
Bergeson, snagged the rebound and
started down the floor when the
whistle blew, ending the game,
Sioux Falls, 67; Bethel, 65.
Sandberg's sharpshooting kept
the Indians on their feet, netting
them 24 points, while Moode, Sioux
Falls center, and mainstay made
31 points.
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